The Year 2025

Five hundred and twenty five days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century and then every fifty years and finally every twenty five years as the pace of change accelerated. After almost a year and a half, we have finally reached the present or at least the world as it was three weeks ago. The first quarter of the twenty first century was a period of dramatic changes and, in some ways, very little change. And most of you were there for the whole thing. Learn more about the world in the year 2025 and how the world changed in the twenty first century on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Hey, Sal. Hank? What's going on? We haven't worked a case in years. I just bought my car at Carvana, and it was so easy, too easy. You think something's up? You tell me. They got thousands of options. Mhmm. Found a great car at a great price. Uh-huh. And it got delivered the next day. It sounds like Carvana just makes it easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah. You're right. Case closed. Buy your car today on Carvana. Delivery fees may apply. This is Chris Christensen from the Amateur Traveler podcast. Your vacation time is important. You don't have enough of it. There are so many places to see. We help you choose where to go. Each week, we cover a different destination, typically in an interview format, and we learn why you should go there and what you should do for a one week itinerary. Get the most out of your vacation time by listening to Amateur Traveller, go and subscribe to Amateur Traveller today, and travel better. When I started this series looking at the state of the world at different years in history, I didn't really plan it out that far in advance. I assumed I'd do it every 100 episodes, and that would be that. However, I soon realized that as I got closer to the nineteenth century, the world was changing so much that waiting a hundred years just wouldn't cut it. The rate of technical and social change in the twentieth century was so great that I couldn't even wait fifty years. For example, the first half of the twentieth century saw the world go from horse drawn carts all the way to jet aircraft. So I started doing episodes every twenty five years in the twentieth century, not realizing that the timing would work out such that episode 2025 would be just a few weeks into the year 2026. The other thing is that all of you, 100% of you, were around for the year 2025, even if some of the younger listeners weren't around for the last twenty five years. So you all know what happened, and I see no point in recapping the past year's current events. So what I wanna do is zoom out, really zoom out, and look at the major …